Half And Half On Boeing Contract Negotiations

SEATTLE (AP) — It's a split decision from the union representing Boeing Co.'s engineers and technical workers. Engineers voted yesterday to accept the aerospace company's four-year contract offer while technical workers rejected it and authorized a future strike. Bill Dugovich of the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace says the votes mean the new contract for the 15,550 engineers is in place. He says negotiators hope to resume contract talks soon on behalf of the 7,400 technical workers. A strike by the those workers is not imminent, but Dugovich says the negotiating team is authorized to call one.